locust

Any of various short-horned grasshoppers that sometimes migrate in immense swarms, devouring vegetation and crops.

A cicada, especially a periodical cicada.

a. Any of several trees of the pea family bearing long pods, especially the black locust, honey locust, and carob.

b. The wood of any of these trees.

Origin of locust

Middle English, from Old French locuste, from Latin locusta. Sense 3a, probably from the resemblance of a carob pod to a grasshopper and the use of both as subsistence food in drier regions of the Near East.

Sentence Examples

Be at the corner of Locust and Ninth in 20 min­utes or I'm a dead man!

He told himself he didn't give a damn about Locust and Ninth but his mind wouldn't let go.

There was nothing at Ninth and Locust but a boarded-up storefront and a stillness like the day after the end of the world.

Fourth and Oak were just as desolate as Ninth and Locust, but as soon as Dean stopped the car, a disheveled figure jumped from the darkness and clawed at the passenger door until Dean reached over and opened it.